Fionnuala Britton’s medal run continued yesterday when she claimed the bronze at the European Indoor Championships.

The Wicklow athlete added to her back-to-back European cross-country golds by finishing third in the 3,000m in Gothenburg.

Her success – Ireland’s 15th medal in the history of the championships – came after Ciaran O’Lionaird claimed bronze in the men’s event on Saturday.

And according to Britton, her run was the perfect rehearsal for her World cross-country tilt at the end of this month.

“In a way you could say I took a bit of a gamble doing indoors before the World cross-countries,” said the 28-year-old. “If I’d come away seventh or ninth you would have said, ‘What was the point’. But I came away with a medal – and it’s not easy to get any medal – so you take what you can get.”